Record Details

NHER Number:31504
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Iron Age or Roman shackle and chain

Summary

Metal detecting southwest of the ford recovered an Iron Age or Roman iron slave shackle with a single chain link attached.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 14 91
Map Sheet:TM19SW
Parish:BUNWELL, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1995. Metal detecting. Southwest of ford
Iron Age or Roman iron slave shackle, with single chain link attached.
See (S1) and (S2).
A. Rogerson (NLA) 26 August 1995.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Early Iron Age to Roman - 800 BC to 409 AD)

Associated Finds

  • SHACKLE (Early Iron Age to Roman - 800 BC to 409 AD)
  • SLAVE CHAIN (Early Iron Age to Roman - 800 BC to 409 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Davies, J.A.. 1995. Sketch of an Iron Age/Roman iron slave shackle.. Paper. 1:1.
<S2>Article in Serial: Thompson, H.. 1993. Iron Age and Roman Slave-Shackles. The Archaeological Journal. Vol 150 pp 57-168. p 117.

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